Prick up your ears
A bounty of Bunting on crime audio from the archives
What's your serial killer required reading list?
When I was writing up my thoughts on Boston Strangler yesterday, I was surprised to discover that its source material wasn’t a book. That revelation is...
Slenderman · Boston Strangler · Citizen Sleuth
Plus: A cell phone scam long read
Say Nothing · Furious Hours · My Friend Anna
Plus: What we were considering this weekend
Harvard Yard · Stanford University · Jussie Smollett
Plus: Mulling the Delphi murders
Criminal Minds · Naked City · Joe Pepitone
Caril Ann Fugate three ways, plus Foxy drops the mic
Girls · In The Dark · Oscar Isaac
Plus: Guess Eve's Kurt Vonnegut theory was wrong
Your Edgar Awards ballot
Awards season isn’t quite over — we’ve still got the 2023 Edgars to look forward to! Not to mention Susan Howard’s coverage of this year’s Best Fact Crime...
Blake, Dunne, and Capote
Plus, why Waco won't go anywhere
Peanut butter and jelly : Tech and crime
Plus: a lot going on this weekend!
Gilmore · MacDonald · Shakur · Kennedy · Nixon · Perry
And Spector, and Stone...a Robert Sam Anson reader
What true crime stories *shouldn't* be adapted?
As discussed on Best Evidence yesterday, the latest attempt to adapt H.H. Holmes-centric novel The Devil in the White City has tanked. As I read through the...
Frank Grillo · World's Fair · Jimmy Savile
Plus: An object lesson in how *not* to write about a school molestation scandal
Eliot Ness · Charlie Chaplin · Dick Wolf
Plus Judith Light, the Gentleman Bandit, and stupid title tricks
Life for Murdaugh · University of Idaho · Jussie Smollett
Plus: your podcast help requested
"Melrose Place" · A Manson girl · The Ballad Of Nanette The Laundry Cart
Plus the Oscar streaker and bad re-enaccents
When your search for materials on a given case is itself a cold case
From an esteemed colleague came the following query yesterday: Have you ever heard of the Galbraith case? I can't seem to find a book on it. He enclosed a...
February 2023 Bonus Review: By Hands Now Known
A revolting history; a new classic
Millionaire Dog · Dr. Phil · Ashton Kutcher
It's the February budget sweep!
Bear Brook · Robert Wone · I Have Some Questions For You
Plus data scrubbing, Von Nukem research, and Jersey...Jerseying
Boston Strangler · Peak Murdaugh · Jane Doe
Weekend TV and real-life follows
Starkweather and Fugate · Hamilton and Burr · Ice-T and Live
And the good things about bad books
When centering the suspect works (and when it doesn't)
We’ve been talking a lot lately about how problematic it is to center the criminal in a true crime property. Victims rights advocates quite properly protest...
Listen now, watch later
Two roundups today: Some new podcasts of interest, and a bunch of upcoming true crime film and TV to watch for
Chris Dorner · Cadbury Eggs · Tiki Torchers
Plus: the [noun] And [noun] true crime title trend
Run Bambi Run: The Musical · Unfrozen Caveman Live PD
Plus the CBC on "Big True Crime," and more Cavett author beef
Stolen Youth · Salman Rushdie · Niecy Nash
Plus: How crime coverage misled us about bitcoin
What's your perfect Valentine's day true crime playlist?
RCMP Alberta @RCMPAlbertaSave yourself heartache this Valentine’s Day by ensuring you protect yourself from car thieves. Park in well-lit areas and remove...
Baseball Myths · Black Widows · Bankman-Fried
Plus sketchy YouTube momagers, and a cold case gets cracked
Bugsy · Brett · Bird on the lam
Plus Santos, superfluous reporting, and your true-crime weekends
Hooray for Hollywood (true crime)
As folks return to the theater, true crime pictures get bigger
Let's talk about the Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez would have been 63 this month. He died nearly a decade ago (June 7, 2013, if you’re keeping track) in a hospital in tony Marin County,...
Armie Hammer · The Order · Authentic Wave
Plus: The bizarre true crime link to "Emancipation"
Martha Mitchell · Marilyn Manson · College Hoops
Plus AI, Adnan, and sponcon
Oakland · Anthony Palladino · Murf the Surf
Plus: Our true-crime weekend
Eric Adams · Mormons · A Groundhog Day BET-CRP
Plus the commercialization of documentaries
Black History Month: Recs and reqs
Black History Month gets underway today, and you know what that means. Thought-provoking discussion and reading/viewing, yes…but also cringey leveraging of...
Jerks · Backstories · Sports
It's the January budget doc sweep post
48 Hours · Rikers · The '70s
Plus a missing "trustafarian" and The Big Lie
January 2023 Bonus Review: You're Wrong About Henry Lee Lucas
Sarah Marshall and Rachel Monroe on how a garden-variety creep became an archetype
Justin Roiland · Elizabeth Holmes · Irish Dumping
Plus weekend (fiction?) watching
George Santos is the Zodiac*
Plus Kennedy, Koresh, and the Oscars
The Doodler · Anna Delvey · Rust Reactions
Plus: "Cold Justice" warms back up
When genres collide: What reality-show suspects deserve the true-crime treatment?
“Reality show or true crime series?” asked NPR this week. The subject in question was the he Real Housewives franchise, which has manufactured a multitude of...
Web Of Death · Sam Sheppard Jr. · The Murdaughs
Plus: you can't spell "Elizabeth Holmes" without "lam" (...allegedly)
Brett Kavanaugh · Meryl Streep · Mario Batali
Is that our most random subject line yet? y/n?
Slender Man · Black Dahlia · Accidental Presidents
Two hits and a whiff
True crime matchmaking: marry a great fiction writer with a great true crime case
One of my favorite lines in Glass Onion involves the intersection of fiction and crime. A Musk-like billionaire (Ed Norton) tells detective Benoit Blanc...
New Podcasts · Evan Peters · Kit Kats
Four new shows to look forward to in 2023
Jailhouse Lawyers · Dead Presidents · Con(gres)s(men)
Plus Episcopaliananigans and college-town dispatches